Maya Forstater

9/ All of these issues involve balancing out risk. The rights framework raises the issue, but the risk framework determines the outcome. Sports clubs are always careful to avoid situations where they could be held to be negligent if someone gets injured.

10/ These are complex issues that need to be carefully assessed. The process of doing so involves balancing out different risk factors. It is invariably situation specific, and different situations will have different outcomes, depending on the risk factors involved.

11/@JolyonMaugham rightly argues these situations require nuance, and he will be aware as a lawyer of the different trade offs involved, and the different legal parameters and questions that need to be asked and answered as part of this process. That doesn't make him a misogynist

12/ Supporting trans rights does not mean you trample on the rights of women. In a sports context it involves clubs and players looking at the risks and rights involved in different options, and making a balanced decision based on that assessment. Rights are not either/or.

In this case they are. Men are playing womens sport. They are breaking athletics records in the US. They are stealing medals from women and they are taking team places from women. There are two sexes. Sport is divided by sex. Women could get killed by playing rugby against a man

Women could get killed playing rugby full stop. There are risks of physical injury and/or death with any contact sport. If I was a six foot female rugby player should I be barred from playing the sport I love because I might hurt someone smaller than me?

Don’t be ridiculous! A 6ft woman is incapable of inflicting as much damage as a six foot man. And even if they were, how is it right that a woman has her place in a team stolen by a man? Or loses a medal because a man choses to weighlift in a womans competition?

What people are capable of and what they are permitted to do within the rules of a contact sport are very different. In any case, it is down to the players to decide what they consider to be within the realm of acceptable risk. And trans women are women not men.